Re: Oracle8's new features - what are they

Mike Yukish wrote:
>
> In article
> <Pine.NEB.3.95.970521115910.1209B-100000_at_cripplecock.sarc.city.ac.uk>,
> Akmal B Chaudhri <akmal_at_no_spam.uk> wrote:
>
> > On 19 May 1997, Walter Roberts wrote:
> >
> > > Oracle8 will support larger, more demanding OLTP (online transaction
> > > processing) and data warehousing applications with ...
> > >
> >
> > [snip]
> >
> > Doesn't sound as though there is an awful lot of OO there.
>
> There isn't. Oracle8 is not an OO database. No polymorphism, no
> inheritance. The major add ons are in the ability to partition the tables
> across machines, operate on individual partitions without taking the whole
> DB down, handle huge files better, parallel queries, index only tables,
> improved password management, language support,...
>
> Not a slam, its just what it is.

I agree that it's very sad that polymorphism and inheritance is not supported in 8.0, but please don't overlook the user-defined object types with properties (can be other object types as well) and methods.

Cheers,

Finn

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